Eliminate what makes you fragile before pursuing upside — debt and obligation prevent the risk-taking that opportunity requires.
If I rewrote the manual I would move this to the front. Part V is the section most similar guides omit, and it is the one that makes the rest safe to follow.
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example-of →Improvement usually comes from removal — subtract the harmful before adding the helpful.Taleb’s subtraction principle applied to a career. The ordering claim is the useful part: removal is not one option among many, it is the step that has to come first.